Editing Strophe (section)

==Poetic structure==
In a more general sense, the strophe is a pair of [[stanza]]s of alternating form on which the structure of a given poem is based, with the strophe usually being identical to the stanza in modern poetry and its arrangement and recurrence of rhymes giving it its character. But the Greeks called a combination of verse-periods a system, giving the name "strophe" to such a system only when it was repeated once or more in unmoved form.

A simple form of Greek strophe is the Sapphic strophe. Like all Greek verse, it is composed of alternating long and short syllables (symbolized by '''—''' for long, '''u''' for short and '''x''' for either long or short) in this case arranged in the following manner:<ref>William S. Annis. Introduction to Greek Meter. Aoidoi.org January 2006. [http://www.aoidoi.org/articles/meter/intro.pdf. Page 11.]</ref>

'''— u — x — u u — u — —'''

'''— u — x — u u — u — —'''

'''— u — x — u u — u — x — u u — —'''

Far more complex forms are found in the odes of [[Pindar]] and the choral sections of [[Greek drama]].

In choral poetry, it is common to find the strophe followed by a metrically identical [[antistrophe]], which may – in Pindar and other [[epinician]] poets – be followed in turn by a metrically dissimilar [[epode]],<ref>Edwin D. Floyd. "Some more or less technical observations on Greek rhythm." class material for University of Pittsburgh: Classics 1130. http://www.pitt.edu/~edfloyd/Class1130/strophe.html accessed January 6, 2015.</ref> creating an ''AAB'' form.